Within the EU project "Euro-limpacs",
D. M. Livingstone is a Sub-Task Leader (WP1, Task 3, Sub-Task (i)
"Long-term Direct Climate-Change Impacts on Surface Waters")
and Swiss Project Leader.
Euro-limpacs project details:
Duration: February 2004 to January 2009
EC contract no. GOCE-CT-2003-505540
Total Euro-limpacs budget: € 19.2 million
EAWAG budget: SFr. 688 000
Euro-limpacs is concerned with the science required to understand
and manage the ecological consequences of climate change for freshwater
ecosystems (lakes, rivers and wetlands). It is an unusually large
project involving 37 main contractors from 19 countries.
The objectives of Euro-limpacs are:
• to improve
our understanding of how global change (especially climate change,
interacting with other drivers such as land-use change, nutrient
loading, acid deposition and toxic pollution) is changing and will
change the structure and functioning of European freshwater ecosystems;
• to encapsulate
this understanding in the form of testable predictive models;
• to identify
key taxa, structures or processes (indicators of aquatic ecosystem
health) that clearly indicate impending or realised global change
through their loss, occurrence or behaviour;
• to identify
better approaches for the renaturalisation of ecosystems and habitats
within the context of global change that will lead to the successful
fulfilment of the EU Water Framework Directive in achieving good
ecological status in freshwater habitats;
• to provide
guidance, in the form of usable models, decision support systems
and other appropriate tools to respond to the interactions between
climate change and other changes, in the best interests of conservation
of the goods and services provided to the community by its freshwater
systems;
• to communicate
this information and understanding to users, stakeholders and the
wider public.
Euro-limpacs is supported by the EC
under Framework Programme 6 (see web sites here
and here). It runs
from 1 February 2004 to 31 January 2009.
A
flier describing the Euro-limpacs project can be downloaded from
here.
Euro-limpacs
is one of several associated EU projects on remote mountain lakes
that have a common website here.
Publications with D. M. Livingstone's participation produced within
the framework of, or associated with, Euro-limpacs
Hari,
R. E., D. M. Livingstone, R. Siber, P. Burkhardt-Holm and H. Güttinger
(submitted): Consequences of climatic change for water temperature
and brown trout populations in Alpine rivers and streams.
Jankowski,
T., D. M. Livingstone, R. Forster, H. Bührer and P. Niederhauser
(submitted): Consequences of the 2003 European heatwave for lakes:
implications for a warmer world.
Livingstone,
D. M., T. Jankowski and A. F. Lotter (in press): Patterns of deviation
from linearity in the relationship between lake surface temperature
and altitude above sea level in the Swiss Alps. Verh. Internat.
Verein. Limnol., 29(1)
Livingstone,
D. M., A. F. Lotter and H. Kettle (in press): Altitude-dependent
differences in the primary physical response of mountain lakes to
climatic forcing. Limnol. Oceanogr.
Weyhenmeyer,
G. A., M. Meili and D. M. Livingstone (in press): Systematic differences
in the trend towards earlier ice-out on Swedish lakes along a latitudinal
temperature gradient. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol., 29(1)
Non-reviewed articles
Livingstone,
D. M. (2004): Eisbedeckung von Seen und Flüssen. Klimatrends
aus historischen Aufzeichnungen. EAWAG News 58d, 19-22.
Livingstone,
D. M. (2004): Klimaphänomen: Nordatlantische Oszillation. Beeinflusst
sie den Auftauzeitpunkt von Seen auf der Nordhalbkugel? EAWAG News
58d, 23-25.
Livingstone,
D. M. (in press): Ice cover on lakes and rivers. Climate trends
inferred from historical records. EAWAG News 58e, 19-22.
Livingstone,
D. M. (in press): The North Atlantic Oscillation: Does it influence
the timing of break-up of lakes in the Northern Hemisphere? EAWAG
News 58e, 23-25.
Livingstone,
D. M. (in press): La couverture de glace des lacs et rivières.
L’évolution du climat de source historique. EAWAG News
58f, 19-22.
Livingstone,
D. M. (in press): Le phénomène climatique de l’Oscillation
Nord-Atlantique. A-t-elle une influence sur la date de dégel
des lacs de l’hémisphère Nord? EAWAG News 58f,
23-25.
Weyhenmeyer,
G. A., M. Meili and D. M. Livingstone (2003): Nonlinear temperature
response of lake ice breakup to changes in air temperature. EOS
Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GC11A-06.
EU reports
D.
M. Livingstone (2005): Long-term historical data on water temperature
and ice cover in lakes and rivers. Data Report, Euro-limpacs Workpackage
1, Task 3(i), January 2005.
Institutes
participating in Euro-limpacs
Austria:
University of Innsbruck
Austria: University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences
Belgium: University of Leuven
Canada: Trent University
Czech Republic: Czech Geological Survey
Czech Republic: Czech Academy of Sciences
Czech Republic: Charles University
Czech Republic: Masaryk University, Brno
Denmark: National Environmental Research Institute
Finland: Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
France: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / University
of Toulouse
France: University of Rennes
Germany: University of Duisburg-Essen
Germany: ENTERA
Germany: HYDROMOD Scientific Consulting
Germany: Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig-Halle
Greece: Greek Biotope/Wetland Centre
Iceland: University of Iceland
Italy: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Netherlands: ALTERRA Green World Research
Netherlands: Institute for Environmental Studies
Netherlands: Utrecht University
Norway: Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)
Romania: University of Bucharest
Russia: Russian Academy of Sciences
Spain: Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas
Spain: University of Barcelona
Spain: University of Granada
Sweden: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Sweden: Swedish Environment Research Institute
Switzerland: Swiss Federal Institute of Environmental Science and
Technology (EAWAG)
UK: Royal Holloway Institute for Environmental Research
UK: University College London
UK: University of Reading
UK: Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Natural Environmental Research
Council
UK: University of Liverpool
UK: Macaulay Land Use Research Institute
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